NIFS

NIFS is Gemini-North's Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer built by the
Australian National University's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

NIFS provides 3D imaging spectroscopy with spectral resolving power (lambda/delta lambda) of R~5000 over a 3.0" x 3.0" image field in the Z through K-band spectral regions (0.95 to 2.40 μm). NIFS is designed to be fed by the Gemini North Adaptive Optics system, ALTAIR, hence it is possible to achieve spatially resolved spectroscopy on scales as small as 0.1" using Natural or Laser guide stars. Coronographic spectroscopy can also be performed through use of an occulting mask.

The Instrument Scientist for NIFS is Marie Lemoine-Busserolle. Gemini staff who also support GNIRS include Andreea Petric and Jenny Shih.

Announcements

NIFS Science Highlights

How to Use These Pages

The Gemini instrument pages first give the status of the instrument
and its availability in the next semester. The information is then
organized initially by instrument mode, followed by technical
information necessary for writing a proposal and detailed observation
planning, and then content relevant to reducing and interpreting data.